On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sergio Masci wrote:

<snip stuff about why Microchip does not open their tools>

> Possibly competitive advantage.
>
> Lets face it, if I want to sell chips and I have support software for them, I'm
> going to do much better than someone who has a clone of my chips with subtle
> differences and NO support software. Can you use Microchip's MPLAB to develop
> code for the Ubicom SX MCUs 100% effectively? I really doubt it.

OTOH, A completely open PIC-development environment exists and it doesn't
support Ubicom processors either. This leads me to conclude that either
the open environment really sucks or that no one using SX processors is
motivated to make the minor changes necessary to support them. It's not
clear (to me anyway) that a more open MPLAB would entice SX add ons.

Scott

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